Memorial Device

ABSTRACT

A flower sheet for creating a memorial may include flower cut lines to define a flower ornament and a discard portion. The flower ornament may include a flower portion and a picture and the the picture may be formed from printing. The flower ornament may include a fold line to join a first petal with a second petal. The flower ornament may include a truncated heart shape. A multitude of flower ornaments may form a bouquet. The bouquet may include overlapping petals.

The present invention relates to memorials and more particularly to a flower memorial.

BACKGROUND

Picture frame assemblies including a backing plate and a frame element for retaining a photograph or other planar picture element against the backing element are well known. Such frame assemblies include means for retaining the backing element in the frame, and can include a sheet of glass or other transparent material over the picture element. Because picture frames come in assorted shapes and sizes and are generally flat, picture frames can be hung flush with a flat surface.

Miniature picture frames are also well known, and are sometimes used as part of a memorabilia display and as elements of memorials. It is sometimes desired to fix the picture frame to an object, such as a tree, flower stem, a candle, a vase, a basket, a gift wrapping, a container, a column, and furniture. Graveyards are a desirable place to leave memorials for those that have passed beyond. However, leaving objects other than flowers are almost universally banned from the graveyards. Love ones feel a desire to display a picture in order to remember those that have passed beyond and have others share with the memory of the deceased.

SUMMARY

A flower sheet for creating a memorial may include flower cut lines to define a flower ornament and a discard portion.

The flower ornament may include a flower portion and a picture and the picture may be formed from printing.

The flower ornament may include a fold line to join a first petal with a second petal.

The flower ornament may include a truncated heart shape petal.

A multitude of flower ornaments may form a bouquet.

The bouquet may include overlapping petals.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The invention may be understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which, like reference numerals identify like elements, and in which:

FIG. 1 illustrates a flower sheet for creating a memorial;

FIG. 2 illustrates a first embodiment for creating a memorial;

FIG. 3 illustrates a second embodiment for creating a memorial;

FIG. 4 illustrates a bouquet of pedals including the flower portion and the picture for creating a memorial;

FIG. 5 illustrates a another embodiment of a bouquet of pedals including the flower portion and the picture for creating a memorial;

FIG. 6 illustrates a truncated heart shaped petal;

FIG. 7 illustrates a bouquet having overlapping petals;

FIG. 8 illustrates a multi-bouquet arrangement;

FIG. 9 illustrates another multi-bouquet arrangement.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION

The present invention is a memorial device suitable to be maintained within a graveyard and includes printing on a flexible, inflexible and partially flexible sheet which may be formed in the shape of a flower. Printing on sheets is a known technology. Block printing first came to Europe as a method for printing on cloth, where it was common by 1300.

Inkjet transfer or inkjet photo transfer is a technique to transfer a photograph or graphic, printed with an inkjet printer onto textiles, cups, CDs, glass and other surfaces.

A special transfer sheet, usually ISO A4 size, is printed on with a regular inkjet printer. The photo has to be printed as a mirror image (except for some transfer sheets for dark materials).

In modern lithography, the image is made of a polymer coating applied to a flexible plastic or metal plate. The image can be printed directly from the plate (the orientation of the image is reversed), or it can be offset, by transferring the image onto a flexible sheet (rubber) for printing and publication.

As a printing technology, lithography is different from intaglio printing (gravure), wherein a plate is either engraved, etched, or stippled to score cavities to contain the printing ink; and woodblock printing or letterpress printing, wherein ink is applied to the raised surfaces of letters or images. Today, most types of high-volume books and magazines, especially when illustrated in color, are printed with offset lithography, which has become the most common form of printing technology since the 1960s.

FIG. 1 illustrates a flower sheet 100 which may be printed with various flower cut lines and flower fold lines and pictures. The flower sheet 100 may be flexible, may be rigid, or may be semi-flexible in order that the flower ornament 106 may be formed after the portion of the flower sheet 100 that remains after cutting and folding. The discard portion 108 of the flower sheet 100 may be separated from the flower ornament 106 by cutting along the flower cut line 102 which may be a weakened area.

FIG. 1 additionally illustrates that the flower ornament 106 may include a memorial picture which may be a picture 112 of the deceased and which may include a flower portion 114 which may enclose partially or totally the picture 112. The shape of the flower portion 114 may be shaped as any flower in order that the memorial 120 be accepted by the cemetery. The flower ornament 106 may include a multitude of flower portions 114 which may be joined together at the flower fold line 104.

FIG. 2 illustrates a flower sheet 100 which shaped with various flower cut lines and formed with flower fold lines and memorial pictures. The flower sheet 100 may be flexible, may be rigid, or may be semi-flexible in order that the flower ornament 106 may be formed after the portion of the flower sheet 100 that remains after cutting and folding. The discard portion 108 (see FIG. 1) of the flower sheet 100 may be separated from the flower ornament 106 by cutting along the flower cut line 102.

FIG. 2 additionally illustrates that the flower ornament 106 may include a memorial picture which may be a picture 112 of the deceased and which may include a flower portion 114 which may enclose partially or totally the picture 112. The shape of the flower portion 114 may be shaped as any flower in order that the memorial device 120 be accepted by the cemetery. The flower ornament 106 may include a multitude of flower portions 114 which may be joined together at the flower fold line 104.

FIG. 2 additionally illustrates that stakes/rods 122 extend substantially vertical from the flower portion 114 to be inserted into the ground or a support surface 124. A pair of opposed connectors 126 may be connected to the side of the flower portion 114.

FIG. 3 illustrates another embodiment of the invention and illustrates that the picture 112 has been cut to the shape of a flower petal having no flower portion 114. The picture 112 is connected to an adjacent picture 112 by a flower fold line 104 and the bottom of the picture 112 may be connected to a stake/rod 122.

FIG. 4 illustrates a perspective view of the flower ornament 106 of the present invention and illustrates the flower fold line 104 between adjacent petals, the picture 112 on the petals, and a flower portion 114 in the shape of a flower petal.

The area of the flower picture 112 with respect to the area of the flower portion 114 may be varied. The area of the flower picture 112 may be the entire flower ornament 106 or the area of the flower picture 112 may be extremely small with respect to the area of the flower ornament 106. The shape of the flower ornament 106 may be a rose, a lily or any other type of flower.

The flower sheet 100 may be formed from paper, cotton, silk plastic, metal, or any other material that can be formed into a sheet. The flower portion 114 may be formed into a bouquet or a multitude of similar or different flowers. The flower ornament 106 may be used at any and all events for example at a baby shower using pictures 112 of baby things such as rattles, pacifier with a flower portion 114 which may be colored pink and blue, at a college graduation or similar event having a flower bouquet on one or all of the tables with a picture 112 of important life events having the college logo on the flower portion 114, at the Kentucky derby having a picture 112 of a horse on the flower portion 114 to make the flower bouquet, additionally a picture 112 of the family at the cemetery may be placed on the flower portion 114 making a flower bouquet to be placed into a flower vase, lastly, the teachings of the present invention may be used at business events and or weddings.

The bouquet and petals of the present invention may be formed from wood plastic porcelain glass (loan) metal and other similar materials.

The picture may be placed on the petal using silkscreen printing, laser ink, drawings, embroidery, paint, heat paint or other comparable processes.

A stem of the bouquet may be attached using glue, thread, wire, wax, and the thread may be mixed with other materials for attachment.

FIG. 6 illustrates a truncated heart shaped petal.

FIG. 7 illustrates a bouquet having overlapping petals.

FIG. 8 illustrates a multi-bouquet arrangement.

FIG. 9 illustrates another multi-bouquet arrangement.

While the invention is susceptible to various modifications and alternative forms, specific embodiments thereof have been shown by way of example in the drawings and are herein described in detail. It should be understood, however, that the description herein of specific embodiments is not intended to limit the invention to the particular forms disclosed. 

1) A flower sheet for creating a memorial, comprising: the sheet including flower cut lines to define a flower ornament and a discard portion; the flower ornament including a flower portion and a picture; wherein the picture is formed from printing. 2) A flower sheet for creating a memorial as in claim 1, wherein the flower ornament includes a fold line to join a first petal with a second petal. 3) A flower sheet for creating a memorial as in claim 1, wherein the flower ornament is a truncated heart shape. 4) A flower sheet for creating a memorial as in claim 1, wherein a multitude of flower ornaments form a bouquet. 5) A flower sheet for creating a memorial as in claim 4, wherein the bouquet includes overlapping petals. 